TY - JOUR
AU - Fuchs,Victor R.
TI - His and Hers: Gender Differences in Work and Income, 1959-1979
JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL - No. 1501
PY - 1984
Y2 - November 1984
DO - 10.3386/w1501
UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1501
L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1501.pdf
N1 - Author contact info:
Victor R. Fuchs
796 Cedro Way
Stanford, CA 94305
Tel: 650/326-7639
Fax: 650/328-4163
E-Mail: vfuchs@stanford.edu
M2 - featured in NBER digest on 1985-05-01
AB - This paper describes changes in hours of work and income between 1959 and 1979 of women and men ages 25-64. It includes attempts to measure and value nonmarket production and leisure as well as market work, to take account of possible income-sharing within households, and to allow for economies of scale in household production. The most important empirical result is that, relative to men, women's access to goods and services and leisure was lower in 1979 than in 1959. Changes in hourly earnings, hours of work, and household structure contributed to this result. The sex differential in hourly earnings is explored in detail.
ER -